Can anyone tell if this looks like an infection?

[Sourdiesel]

Hello All,

New to homebrewing, and working on my 3rd brew.
Can anyone tell me if this looks like an infection? It doesn't have any off smell to it, but it just looks different from the last 2 brews.
If it is an infection, is there anything I can do to save it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[chisena]

What is the brew? Yeast type?

 

[lowtones84]

Looks just fine to me! How long has it been fermenting?

 

[ZebulonBrewer]

If this is in the first few days, it looks fine to me. If this is a few weeks in, you might have a problem.

 

[AknotOtoads]

Looks like krausen to me... As said before, if its early in the fermentation and you airlock is bubbling; your making beer!

 

[Sourdiesel]

What is the brew? Yeast type?

It's a pumpkin ale. Used 5lbs of roasted sugar pumpkins. And us-05 yeast

 

[Sourdiesel]

What is the brew? Yeast type?

This is a pumpkin ale. I used us-05 in it.
5 lbs of roasted pumpkin went into it.

 

[Sourdiesel]

What is the brew? Yeast type?

This is a pumpkin ale, used 5 lbs of roasted pumpkin in it. And us-05 yeast.

 

[Sourdiesel]

It's been in fermentation for almost 2 weeks now. It's looked the same sense day two.
Still bubbles 2-3 times a minute.

 

[brewkinger]

My experience with pumpkin beers are limited (3 total), but in every case they have been some of the gnarliest looking fermentations with very thick and funky looking krausen.
One of my buckets has a permanent orange ring on the plastic.
That looks OK, and it could just be off gassing CO2 through the thick krausen.
What temps did you ferment at?

 

[wizzzard]

room temp? any barley? other fermentables?
looks like lager yeast,2-4 weeks are acceptable.

 

[unionrdr]

That is a funky looking krausen. Could be something starting to take hold in those white areas & the larger bubbles, being two weeks old.

 

[Sourdiesel]

Thanks for the response.
It has been a steady 73 according to my thermometer. It dropped to 70 at some point from the min reading.

 

[Sourdiesel]

Temp has be at 73.
I used 6lbs extract, 1lbs Honey, and the 5lbs pumpkin. All boiled for the full 60

 

[unionrdr]

Is any of the pumpkin in primary, or was it strained out?

 

[m00ps]

FYI, 73 is too warm for US-05. you want to keep it in the 60s

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Looks like fermentation.

 

[Sourdiesel]

It was as strained out. But some pulp got by.

 

[martyjhuebs]

In a couple cases, I have experienced a Krausen similar to this when I was not adding minerals to my water. The yeast and hops clumped together and held their ground on top until I cold crashed. At that resolution I would say that it is fine but then again I would taste the beer under it and see, its not like it will kill you.

 

[dkeller12]

I have a pumpkin ale in my fermentor right now that is 2 weeks into fermentation today and it looks exactly like that. I wouldn't worry about it, looks fine. I took a gravity reading today and mine is a couple points off and tastes wonderful. I don't think you have anything to worry about. Cheers!

 

[kh54s10]

73 degrees is definitely on the warm side for US05. I would siphon from under that and get into bottles now. My pumpkin ale had a weird looking Krausen but it didn't last so long.

 

[Sourdiesel]

Thank you all for the advice.
Hopefully next brew will go a lot smoother like the first two.

Happy brewing.

 

[Sourdiesel]

Update
Brew came out great with no issues. 1.055og, 1.005fg Having a few right now
Once again thanks for all the advise!